Louise O'Connor

Louise creates individually sculpted, then hand-painted ceramic animal sculptures.

Louise has been making animals for several years including the penguins you can see here. She sculpts mostly with her hands with minimal help from a few tools. After they are made and fired they are hand-painted with oxides, glazes and slips before being fired to stoneware, which makes them stronger. Louise uses good good quality Earthstone clays.

Louise’s work can be described a light hearted parody of mostly the fun side of human nature depicted through animal imagery in clay. Each piece is unique, with a character all to itself that hopefully will bring much joy and pleasure to its new and forever home.